OLLIE'S BARGAIN OUTLET 360 CHALLENGE RACE UPDATES

For those not able to join us in person for this midweek special event, we will help you kick off Kings Royal week by bringing you some updated results and news from the evening...

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5:35 pm - The sun is back! After a heavy storm moved through earlier in the afternoon, things are looking up at Eldora. Track crews estimate our hot lap start time to be around 6:30 pm, so we are not too far off from the original schedule at this point. Drivers from many ranks and regions have signed in tonight - including some from the World of Outlaws, the All Stars, USAC, NASCAR, and of course 360 sprint divisions such as NRA and ASCS.... An interesting note; Fred Rahmer looks to make his first Eldora start in 13 years tonight...Unfortunately, Tony Stewart will not be racing tonight. He is continuing to battle illness which started last week at the NASCAR race.

6:10 pm - The drivers meeting is taking place on the frontstretch. Current car counts are 44 sprint cars and 30 modifieds.

6:23 pm - The drivers meeting has concluded. Cars will brought onto the track to put heat in the motors and finish packing the track. Hot laps will follow. Also, there will be no qualifying tonight. We will be utilizing the passing points system.

6:50 pm - The call has gone out for the first group of hot laps....Tim Shaffer will replace Tony Stewart in his Old Spice sponsored 20 car tonight...

7:14 pm - If Donny Schatz wants a crack at the $50,000 bonus tonight, he's going to have to earn it... by nature of the pill draw, he will be starting last in his heat race...

7:20 pm - Hot laps are complete for the sprint cars. Trucks are ironing in the high side and the Moser UMP DIRTcar Modifieds will be out for their warmup session shortly. Heat race lineups for the sprints are posted below...

7:40 pm - First heat race green flag is flying!

Heat race winners are locked into the feature. The 11 drivers highest in points not already locked in following the heat races will then be sent to the feature, with the remainder of the feature being filled by B-Main transfers...

Heat 1 lineup: Fred Rahmer, Cap Henry, Tim Shaffer, Tim Hunter, Brad Foster, Kasey Kahne, Brian Howland, Tim Allison, Luke Hall

Heat 1 finish (top 5): Rahmer, Shaffer, Kahne, Henry, Hunter
notes - motor problems for Kahne on initial start - restarted at tail and climbed to 3rd

Heat 2 lineup: Ron Blair, Steve Erwin, Kevin Huntley, Sam Hafertepe Jr, Darren Long, Dustin Dagget, Dave Blaney, TJ Newton, Lee Stark

Heat 2 finish (top 5): Hafertepe, Blair, Dagget, Blaney, Erwin

Heat 3 lineup: JR Stewart, Mike Brecht, Mike Miller, Brian Sebetto, Joey Saldana, Jared Horstman, Jason Johnson, Dale Blaney, Terry McCarl

Heat 3 finish (top 5): Stewart, Saldana, Johnson, Brecht, Blaney

Heat 4 lineup: Danny Smith, Aaron Maloney, Tony Bruce Jr, Greg Wilson, Chad Kemenah, Dwain Leiber, Butch Schroeder, Donny Schatz

Heat 4 finish (top 5): Schatz, Wilson, Bruce, Smith, Kemenah
notes - Schatz last to first in two laps

Heat 5 lineup: Kent Wolters, Mark Hery, Brian Brown, Trevor Lewis, Bob Carman, Brian Ruhl, Jason Barney, Scott Cramer

Heat 5 finish (top 5): Brown, Lewis, Wolters, Ruhl, Hery
notes - Cramer flips hard into the wall on initial start. He is ok, but car is not.

8:40 pm - Modified heats have just finished and we are ironing in the high side of the track with the push trucks. Two sprint car B-Mains are up next...

B-Main 1 Lineup - Blaney, Henry, McCarl, Hunter, Allison, Schroeder, Carmen, Sebetto, Leiber, Maloney, Foster, Cramer, Hortsman

B-Main 1 finish (top 4 transfer): Blaney, Schroeder, McCarl, Henry, Hunter, Allison, Leiber, Sebetto, ...

B-Main 2 Lineup - Smith, Brecht, Erwin, Kemenah, Hery, Huntley, Hall, Long, Burney, Miller, Newton, Howland, Stark

B-Main 2 finish (top 4 transfer): D Smith, Kemenah, Brecht, Long, Erwin, Howland
notes - Hall takes a hard hit in turn two of initial start. Driver is shaken up, however he is alert and talking to the medical crews....Another series of flips on the next restart, involving Stark, Hery, and Burney

A-Main lineup: Schatz, JR Stewart, Rahmer, Hafertepe, B Brown, Wilson, Saldana, Johnson, Shaffer, Kahne, Daggett, T Lewis, Blair, D Blaney, Bruce, Wolters, Dale Blaney, D Smith, Schroeder, Kemenah, McCarl, Brecht, Henry, Long

A-Main finish: 1)Jason Johnson 2)Sam Hafertepe, jr. 3)Fred Rahmer 4)Greg Wilson 5)Kasey Kahne 6)Dustin Daggett 7)Tony Bruce, Jr. 8)Dave Blaney 9)Tim Shaffer 10)Chad Kemenah 11)Dale Blaney 12)Danny Smith 13)Butch Schroeder 14)Terry McCarl 15)Trevor Lewis 16)Kent Wolters 17)Ron Blair 18)Brian Brown 19)Joey Saldana 20)Donny Schatz 21)J.R. Stewart 22)Mike Brecht 23)Cap Henry 24)Darren Long

notes - Long into fence on lap two. Schatz leads at caution...Lap 15 halfway running order - Schatz, J Johnson, Hafertepe, Rahmer, Saldana...Schatz breaks on lap 23 after dominating the entire race... Johnson is new leader... Saldana while running 3rd gets a flat tire on lap 26 - new running order is Johnson, Hafertepe, Rahmer, Wilson, Bruce, Kahne...Jason Johnson wins!